The geography of Belize most notably includes the Belize Barrier Reef, the second largest barrier reef in the world. Belize is a land with a lush tropical interior, modern cities and a rich coastland famous for diving.

Originally home to the Mayan empire, Guatemala is a country rich in tradition and neighbors. It borders four countries, the most of any Central American nation. Like many geographies in the region, Guatemala has a tropical climate and is quite mountainous.

Honduras borders Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Its area is more than 80% mountains with most of the population congregated in the northeast section of the country. The famed Mosquito Coast (originally Miskito) makes up the southern portion of the country.

Nicaragua borders Honduras and Costa Rica and has beachfront property facing the Caribbean and the Pacific. Nicaragua has lowland areas on both the Pacific and Atlantic sides with a central mountain range running through the middle.

Panama is most famous for its canal which enables ships to cross between both major oceans (the Atlantic and the Pacific). The thin country connects Costa Rica and Colombia and is only about 80 miles wide at its widest point.

Guatemala, or Republic of Guatemala, an independent country of Central America. It borders Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador and lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Honduras, an arm of the Caribbean Sea.